You'd probably talk about vision, Floyd !
Like your smilies, Right eye is 20 while left is 12 (what about mine?)
"Oppyfully", they are still both at 20-20

This is the beacon as seen by the navcams on sol 1201.
http://nasa.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportu...3OP0704L0M1.JPG

Nothing really special or new, but I would like to remark the fact that this shot was taken less then six hours ago by a rover on another planet.

On our first visit to this area I hoped they might try to drive around the back of the Beacon, as in this image:

That would presumably get us up close to some serious outcrop. It looks drivable based on the orbital view, but of course it may be too steep to drive very far back there.

We're almost at Duck Bay! This has been a wild ride.

Sol 1202: Duck Bay is again on the horizon!

Do you still remember "Sputnik"?


And "Cabo Frio"?

Ah.... remember... remember...
It's like to see an old friend or thing like this.

Here is a quick stitch of today's pancams.
Remember that Cabo Verde (*) has a downward slope so it's not yet visible from the current position. But based on the overhead view (see latest map on it's thread), Verde's tip is almost inline with Cabo Frio's tip and the entrance to the cape is inline with Sputnik.



(*) Sorry, but I can't say "Cape" Verde.

Sol 1203: We are back at Cabo Verde!

See these old tracks from sol 959.

Very nice! Hopefully we will soon get the official word for the ingress.

I guess we'll have to close this thread very soon since it has been completed

250 sols later, and we see the very same view of the far rim as we first glimpsed. Indeed the same rocks and soil nearby. How many years before we noticed a change? 100 years for a rock to roll down a cliff? 100 000 years for a large section of cliff to fall away? Would this view still be recognizable in 10 000 000 years?? Could I be feeling a poem coming on, Stu?
I suggest we use this thread until either we reach the entry point at Duck Bay, if we're going in, or we hear that we are not going in. And I started the thread!

I don't suppose it's worth a new thread, but some rover temperature data here. Highlights include summer temperatures above 30 C for Spirit, and this ominous line: Have we heard about this already?

Absolutely

That temperature data was pretty interesting. Thanks for pointing out that surprise. I wish they would do more stuff like that. I don't recall hearing anything about the increased amp demand from Oppy's right front wheel, previously. What a coincidence.